Monday, September 12, 2011

MOVEMENT BBC RADIO 1 PEEL SESSIONS – 1977-1979


John Robert Parker Ravenscroft or John Peel as he was better known is the best Radio DJ the UK has ever known, end of….

He had an immensely eclectic taste in music and always sort diversity in programmes, always pushed boundaries and promoted artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, punk, hip-hop, dance music, heavy metal, death metal, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore and every other kind of ‘core’.

The thing that most people probably looked forward to hearing on his shows was his legendary 'Peel sessions', which usually consisted of four songs recorded by an artist live in the BBC's studios, and often provided the first major national coverage to bands and would often propel them to fame. Many of these sessions have been released before, via Strange Fruit vinyl releases, but now EMI along with the BBC have got together to release ‘Movement – BBC Radio 1 Peel Sessions 1977–1979’ a 2CD compilation of some very rare and previously unreleased tracks from these sessions which will includes artists like The Jam, The Slits, XTC, Steel Pulse, Aswad, The Specials and many more.

For more info visit  HERE



John Peel OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004)

1 comment:

dandelionpete said...

Hey there! Thought you and your readers/listeners might like to know that voting has just opened for the 2011 Festive Fifty.

The legendary end-of-year listeners poll originated by the great John Peel in 1976 continues at its home on Dandelion Radio, to where it was passed by John's production team after his sad death.

Voting takes place until the end of November - just pick your favourite three tracks of 2011, head to www.dandelionradio.com/festive50 and post your votes!

Cheers!

Pete Jackson
pete@dandelionradio.com